"In Tianjin alone, more than 3 million taels of tax silver were received in a month~"

"After the whole Ming Dynasty is calculated, it is not too much to collect seven or eight million taels of silver this month, after this calculation, wouldn't we be able to receive seventy or eighty million silver taxes a year?"

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, made a rough calculation with his fingers, and was immediately taken aback by the number he had calculated.

What is the concept of collecting 70 or 80 million taels of silver in taxes this year?

You must know that the current tax silver of the Ming treasury is less than six million taels of silver a year, which is still because of the germination of capitalism in recent years, and the Changlu Salt Farm alone has to pay two million taxes and silver a year.

If this tax silver can be collected to seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver at once, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to hold it.

"Seventy or eighty million taels of silver?"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but widen their eyes slightly.

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked.

If this court can really receive seventy or eighty million taels of silver a year, it will be really unbelievable.

When the time comes, the money will probably have to worry about how to spend it.

"Seventy or eighty million taels of silver?"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly when he heard this.

Although he is also very rich now, if this court can receive seventy or eighty million taels of silver a year, many things that he wanted to do but couldn't do in the past seem to have become easy all of a sudden.

Money is a good thing.

Even he, the emperor, had to admit that money is not everything, but no money is everything.

"Your Majesty, my lords, judging from the minister's estimates, there should be no difficulty in reaching 70 million taels of tax and silver this year."

Liu Jin stood up and replied with a smile.

Just Tianjin alone, this year will be more than 30 million taels of silver, Daming is very large, there are many overseas territories, last year to the Golden Continent fleet will also come back, then you will definitely be able to receive a large amount of tax silver, calculated, 70 million taels of small goal is a very easy thing.

"70 million taels of silver a year~"

"It seems that we really didn't receive any taxes before~"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but smile and shook his head after hearing this.

In the past, every time the commercial tax was levied, it would be opposed by the government and the opposition, and the income of the imperial court was really pitiful, and the huge Ming Dynasty, the annual tax silver was only less than three million taels of silver, and no one believed it.

Now that Liu Jin is reused, the results are immediate, and I see a huge gap at once.

If he had been able to receive so much tax money in the previous year, Emperor Hongzhi would have done a lot of things a long time ago.

"Okay, it's good to have silver, it's easy to do things with silver~"

Then Emperor Hongzhi sighed, thought for a while and said: "I can receive seventy or eighty million taels of tax silver this year, let's talk about it, how should this silver be spent?" ”

"The silver is in the treasury, it is an iron lump, it is useless, it is spent out, it is money."

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Xie Qian was suddenly gloomy.

Obviously, the note he just handed over was equivalent to a vain hand, and he was able to receive so much tax and silver in a year, not only Emperor Hongzhi, but also these ministers in the court would immediately shut up.

There is no doubt that the imperial court needs silver.

You need money to do everything.

As for the others, they were all slightly stunned, and it seemed that such a generous day had never happened.

This year, 70 or 80 million taels of silver are collected, how to spend this silver?

This question also stumped everyone at once.

In the past, I used to pick and search my life, and I couldn't wait to move a penny into two pennies to spend.

Well, now, the income of the treasury has skyrocketed, and this year it is tens of millions of taels of silver, and it seems that everyone doesn't know how to spend it?

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that he could continue to repair the Great Wall to prevent foreign enemies~"

Someone thought about it and proposed.

Building the Great Wall is almost a compulsory course for the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the conditions permit, it will be repaired, mainly to defend against the attack of the northern steppe people.

It's just that now the northern grasslands have been conquered by the Ming Dynasty and included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, is it too redundant to continue to build the Great Wall now?

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the scale of Tailing can be expanded~"

It was also suggested that the Tailing Emperor was the mausoleum prepared for himself by Emperor Hongji, and that the emperors of all dynasties would start building mausoleums for themselves from the day they ascended the throne.

The emperor who lived for a long time, this mausoleum was naturally built very luxuriously, and there were a lot of things to accompany the burial, as for the short-lived emperor, many times he could only be buried in a hurry.

The construction of mausoleums has always accounted for a large proportion of the expenditure, and it is also an important expenditure in the national treasury.

Ministers, every word you say to me, they have begun to think of ways to spend money, such a rich battle, has never been fought before.

Liu Jin had been listening quietly, with a smile on his face.

Although these ministers put forward a lot of ideas for spending money, they did not get to the point.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Jin, and immediately saw Liu Jin's thoughts, and immediately smiled and said, "Liu Jin, tell me, how should this silver be spent?" ”

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, everyone also looked at Liu Jin again, wanting to hear what new things Liu Jin could say.

"Your Majesty, Princess~"

"The tax money of the treasury, it is taken from the people, and it is used by the people~"

"Therefore, in terms of how to spend the treasury money, the core point should still revolve around using it for the people."

Liu Jin thought for a moment and said slowly.

"The expenditure of the general treasury, we can divide it into several categories~"

"One is the expenses and expenditures required for government officials and daily operations, and this part can be called government expenses~"

"There is also the expenditure required to maintain the Ming army, this part we can call defense expenditure~"

"In addition, there are expenses for supporting the royal relatives, which we can call royal expenses."

"These things are an important part of our Ming treasury expenditure, and the national defense expenditure has now been allocated to His Majesty's internal funds, so the most important expenditure now is the government expenditure and the royal expenditure~"

The expenditure of the Ming Dynasty government has always been very small, and the salary set by Comrade Lao Zhu for the officials of the Ming Dynasty is indeed the lowest in all dynasties, and this expenditure has not changed from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and it has almost never been raised.

The real proportion is getting bigger and bigger is the royal spending.

There are too many princes of the old Zhu family, hundreds of princes, like hundreds of parasites, parasitic on Daming's body, and their number is constantly expanding every year.

These princes of the old Zhu family don't need to do anything, and they can't do anything, so they can only continue to create people, and every time they increase the population, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty must be provided accordingly.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, this expenditure alone accounted for more than one-third of the Ming Dynasty's financial expenditure, like a heavy burden on the already stretched Ming finances.

Hearing Liu Jin's words, everyone also nodded slightly.

The expenditure of the Ming treasury is actually very small, mainly because there is no silver, and more is collected in kind, so the remuneration of officials also includes physical goods, such as grain, cloth, silk, tea, etc., seventy-seven-eighty-eight, all kinds of things.

Anyway, I couldn't see much silver, and even at the beginning, Comrade Zhu was desperately handing out treasure money to officials, and the treasure money was paper.

In the end, the treasure money was transferred to the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty through various means, and it was the common people who suffered, and it was naturally impossible to be an official with two mouths.

"The minister thinks that in terms of the tax expenditure of the imperial court, a detailed plan should be carried out, for example, in terms of the expenditure of the government, its proportion in the entire expenditure should be controlled by one point."

"For example, the expenditure of the Ming government is 10 points, that is, one tenth, so the tax silver used for the government's expenditure this year should reach about seven million taels of silver."

"Seven million taels of silver to give everyone a moon ring?"

When everyone present heard this, they couldn't help but widen their eyes one by one.

If these seven million taels of silver are used to give everyone a moon ring, wouldn't the Ming officials' annual income increase dozens of times?

Although everyone does not rely on the imperial court to live, if they can justifiably get more money, everyone is naturally very happy.

"Of course, I'm just giving an example, this court has a lot of taxes, and it's reasonable to raise the price for everyone~"

Liu Jin smiled and replied.

"Yes, yes, reasonable, very reasonable~"

When the others heard this, they immediately nodded their heads again and again, who would not raise their salaries